17 Thursday Dec 2015
Posted in Gluten Free, Salad Dressing, Vinaigrettes
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herbs, MSG, salt, spice, xanthan gum
Need a last minute gift from your kitchen for someone special? You’ll have most of these ingredients in your cupboard to make this great mix to make a nice flexible vinaigrette. You might want to include a pretty bottle, with a tight-fitting lid, that’s reusable. It’s a tasty little stocking-stuffer. Continue reading
13 Sunday Dec 2015
Posted in Information
The Goddess has been holding out on you. Does it help that her intentions were good? No, huh. Okay, fine….We have the good fortune to live next door to a real Renaissance woman of mystical proportion. She makes the most amazing laundry soap and scrubs. She’s a wonder. Continue reading
13 Sunday Dec 2015
Posted in Apples, Comfort Food, Desserts, Pie
Apple pie, with all the warm spices, is a slice of heaven for dessert or breakfast. And why not for breakfast? You have apple Danish, don’t you? Think about a nice slice of apple pie for breakfast…it makes Monday worth getting out of bed for! Continue reading
12 Saturday Dec 2015
Posted in Brazilian, Comfort Food, Gluten Free, Main Course, Potatoes, Poultry/Chicken, Vegetables
Almost every Sunday, when we lived in São Paulo, we would walk over to the bakery just down the hill from our apartment, and buy 2 chickens. Even today, I can almost smell the aroma wafting up from the bakery, more than 15 years later. They were a memory that was worth trying to recreate. Continue reading
11 Friday Dec 2015
Posted in Appetizers, Condiments, Gluten Free, Pineapple
‘Tis the time of year! This is a great gift from the kitchen, though admittedly The Goddess has been know to plan to give this away, and it never quite makes it out of the kitchen. So she’s sharing the recipe with you, just in case you don’t receive a jar, now you can make it yourself. Continue reading
06 Sunday Dec 2015
Posted in Comfort Food, Pie
There’s something about pies and men…well women, too. From time to time we have folks over for dinner and when The Goddess decides it will be pie for dessert, she’s always bemused by the reaction people (read “men” here!) have. They get sort of glassy-eyed, perhaps a tear forms and then they get this satisfied grin, “There’s going to be pie for dessert….” Continue reading
04 Friday Dec 2015
Posted in Comfort Food, Side Dishes, Stew, Vegetarian
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baking powder, flour, herbs, milk, salt
With autumn deeply upon us, cozy, comfort food is so welcome. For the Goddess, dumplings are a homey-comforting-cold-weather sort of meal. These are not the meat-filled Asian variety, nor the biscuit-type Southern variety, nor the firm German potato dumpling. No, these are the light, fluffy-type of dumplings. A cloud of goodness sitting atop a mound of, in this case, beef stew. Continue reading
02 Wednesday Dec 2015
Posted in Information
The Goddess wishes to remind you that food banks always need donations, particularly at this time of year. They need donations all year long, but at the holidays, no one should have to go hungry. Please be thoughtful and be as generous as possible. Continue reading
01 Tuesday Dec 2015
Posted in Comfort Food, Gluten Free, Poultry/Chicken, Soup, Vegetarian Option
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I will tell you unabashedly, that I got the idea for this soup from the fantastic Marcus Samuelsson, chef/owner of The Red Rooster in Harlem. Watching him cook is like watching a flawless ballet performance, but with sharp knives and flames. He also happens to have spectacularly, nuanced taste buds. Continue reading
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